Download or read book Brancusi s Endless Column Ensemble written by Constantin Brancusi and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Endless Column Ensemble, by famed Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), has been hailed as one of the great works of twentieth-century public art. Commissioned by the National League of Gorj Women to honour the soldiers who had defended the town of Târgu Jiu against a German force in 1916, the tripartite ensemble, erected between 1937 and 1938, is composed of the Endless Column, a 30-metre-high column of zinc and brass-clad, cast-iron modules, and two stone monuments: the Gate of the Kiss and Table of Silence. Over the years the elements took their toll on the sculpture, and although the Column's modules had been replated several times since its construction, by the 1990s it was in dire need of conservation. This stunningly llustrated volume celebrates the history of this extraordinary work of art and tells the story of its recent restoration, landscaping and presentation, supported in large part by the World Monuments Fund (WMF). Brancusi s Endless Column Ensemble launches a series of books co-published by Scala and the WMF, the foremost private organisation dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage around the globe through a programme of fieldwork, advocacy, training and grantmaking. Since its founding in 1965, WMF has worked to stem the loss of more than 430 irreplaceable sites in 83 countries. AUTHOR: Ernest Beck is a New York-based freelance writer and editor. Formerly at The Wall Street Journal, he has been widely published in The New York Times and other arts magazines. Sorana Georgescu-Gorjan, born in Romania, is the curator of the Endless Column archives and editor of the Târgu Jiu journals: Brancusi and Portal Maiastra. She has also authored many books on Brancusi. Richard Newton practised as an architect in the UK prior to moving to the US. He has been a landscape architect with the Olin Partnership since 1993, and managed the landscape restoration of this project. Alexandra Parigoris is Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Fine Arts, History of Art and Cultural Studies, at the University of Leeds. She has taught at Queens University in Canada, and at the Universities of York and of Leeds, where she was a Henry Moore Fellow. Mihai Radu was born in Romania and moved to the US in the 1980s. A successful architect, he eventually become a founding partner of the practice Lauster & Radu Architects (now known as Radu Architects). William Tucker, born in Cairo, spent most of his early life the UK. After studying sculpture in London, he moved to New York in the 1970s. He has since built on his success as a widely acclaimed sculptor, with exhibitions in the US and abroad. 63 colour & 35 b/w illustrations
Download or read book The Largest Art written by Brent D. Ryan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In The Largest Art, Brent Ryan argues that urban design encompasses more than architecture, and he provides a foundational theory of urban design beyond the architectural scale. In a “declaration of independence” for urban design, Ryan describes urban design as the largest of the building arts, with qualities of its own. Ryan distinguishes urban design from its sister arts by its pluralism: plural scale, ranging from an alleyway to a region; plural time, because it is deeply enmeshed in both history and the present; plural property, with many owners; plural agents, with many makers; and plural form, with a distributed quality that allows it to coexist with diverse elements of the city. Ryan looks at three well-known urban design projects through the lens of pluralism: a Brancusi sculptural ensemble in Romania, a Bronx housing project, and a formally and spatially diverse grouping of projects in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He revisits the thought of three plural urbanists working between 1960 and 1980: David Crane, Edmund Bacon, and Kevin Lynch. And he tells three design stories for the future, imaginary scenarios of plural urbanism in locations around the world. Ryan concludes his manifesto with three signal considerations urban designers must acknowledge: eternal change, inevitable incompletion, and flexible fidelity. Cities are ceaselessly active, perpetually changing. It is the urban designer's task to make art with aesthetic qualities that can survive perpetual change.
Download or read book Brancusi and His World written by Edith Balas and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is based on 35 years of Edith Balas's scholarship of Constantin Brancusi, the twentieth century's most influential sculptor. In her 1987 book, Brancusi and Romanian Folk Traditions, Balas convincingly demonstrated that Brancusi's sculpture is rooted in his Romanian peasant origins, his artisan training, and the folklore familiar to him. The present collection of essays explores how this giant also related to his Parisian environment.
Download or read book Constantin Brancusi written by Pierre Cabanne and published by Pierre Terrail. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brancusi is one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. He worked in wood, marble and stone, creating works of pure shapes which often took their inspiration from nature.
Download or read book Copper and Bronze in Art written by David A. Scott and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a review of 190 years of literature on copper and its alloys. It integrates information on pigments, corrosion and minerals, and discusses environmental conditions, conservation methods, ancient and historical technologies.
Download or read book Structures and Architecture written by Paulo J. Cruz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 2314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the disciplines of architecture and structural engineering have both experienced their own historical development, their interaction has resulted in many fascinating and delightful structures. To take this interaction to a higher level, there is a need to stimulate the inventive and creative design of architectural structures and to persua
Download or read book Passages in Modern Sculpture written by Rosalind E. Krauss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1981-02-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions from nineteenth-century figurative works to the conceptual work of the present.
Download or read book Brancusi written by Constantin Brancusi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalog, published in conjunction with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Venice, documents the first major exhibition of Brancusi the photographer. While Brancusi's attraction to the medium is well-known, his photographs have always been seen as secondary to his other studio work. But the 96 photographs collected in this volume are to be seen as an oeuvre in their own right, formally autonomous, showing exceptional aesthetic and technical quality.The book opens new dimensions in space and time of Brancusi's work, especially for three plaster works featured: The Sleeping Muse, The Torso of a Youth, and The Baroness. The exceptional quality and openness of Brancusi-the photographer-gives vantage points on the aesthetic world beyond the realm of his bronze, marble, or wooden works.
Download or read book The Mary and William Sisler Collection written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romania as a Tourist Destination and the Romanian Hotel Industry written by Smaranda Cosma and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the 1970s Romania tourism was blooming and the hotel industry appeared to be strong and healithy... That bright period is still vivid in the minds of several generations of Romanians including the present politicians, whi believed that foreign tourist did not forgot their time spent in Romania, experiencing its bveautifl landscapes and Romanians traditional hospitality. In this respect, the book’s aim is to analyse the evolution of the Romanian tourism and hotel industry after 1990s until now. Does Romanian tourism reach the level of development from the golden age of 1970s? How well developed is the Romanian hotel industry? Has Romania managed to buid a country brand and differentiate with certain forms of tourism from other coutries competing in this area? By adressing and debating this issues the book Romania as a tourist destination and the Romanian hotel industry is must reading for practioners in the tourism business, like business managers, owners, consultants, corporate financiers, private investors and should also be of particular interest to academic community especially students in the business and tourism subject related areas.
Download or read book The Romanian Rhapsody written by Dominique Fernandez and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned travel writer Dominique Fernandez and top photographer Ferrante Ferranti head out in four long journeys covering all of Romania in a 6-year span, uncovering a tantalizing blend of German efficiency and Latin nonchalance, French literature and Gypsy music, Western rationalism and Oriental mysteries. 200 B/W photos.
Download or read book Mara Marietta written by Richard Jonathan and published by Richard Jonathan. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art written by C. Spretnak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created celebrated works of art. This magisterial overview insightfully reveals the centrality of an often denied and misunderstood element in the cultural history of modern art.
Download or read book Washi Transformed written by Meher Mcarthur and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite new publication celebrates how Japanese contemporary artists push traditional washi paper beyond its historic uses to create innovative, highly textured two-dimensional works, expressive sculptures, and dramatic installations. Historically, washi paper has been used as a base for Japanese calligraphy, painting, and printmaking as well as a material in architecture, religious ritual and clothing. In recent years, contemporary Japanese artists have turned this supple yet sturdy paper into a medium for expressing their artistic vision – layering, weaving, dyeing, shredding, folding, or cutting the paper to form abstract sculptures, lyrical folding screens, highly textured wall pieces, and dramatic installations. This elegantly designed volume examines the extraordinary creations of these diverse contemporary artists from Japan, France, and the United States. The publication also demonstrates the resilience, versatility, and unique stature of this ancient artistic medium in the realm of international contemporary art. Published to accompany a travelling exhibition: Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA October 10, 2021 – January 2, 2022 Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO January 28, 2022 – May 15, 2022 D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA June 11, 2022 - September 4, 2022 Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL November 3, 2022 - April 2, 2023
Download or read book Vanishing Histories written by Amery Colin and published by . This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British architectural consultant Amery profiles large historical constructions in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and the Americas that are in advancing stages of deterioration. Most of the many photographs are color. The quality, sewn-bound volume is published in conjunction with the World Monuments Fund. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book Heritage Landscape and Restoration of Historical Gardens written by Mirela Adriana Anghelache and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is dedicated to historical gardens seen from a multidisciplinary perspective: landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning, art history, geoscience, digital methods, bibiotheconomy etc.. Outgoing point was a research about the gardens of the counts Károlyi, a noble family with headquarters close of the three country corner Romania-Hungary-Ukraine but properties also in Slovakia and having an architect who was landscape architect in Austria. The introduction shows an overview of the research programmes in frame of which it was performed and of the results. Because the second part of the research on Károlyi heritage was performed during the pandemic, instead of field trips specialist opinions were invited resulting in this book. The conclusions show how green spaces in itself are not only subject of study during the pandemic but also a factor to cope with it. The main body is structured into a feature paper on the Károlyi heritage in Slovakia as well as interviews from Romania and abroad structured around the contemporary challenges in the heritage, landscape and restoration of historical gardens. The invited specialists answered the same 5 questions. Three of them also visited other Károlyi gardens, two of them on the purpose of intervention. The book includes images and plans of gardens across Europe including Romania, Italy, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands apart of Slovakia. Also methodological approaches are included
Download or read book Will Alsop written by Ken Powell and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsible for Le Grand Bleu in Marseille and North Greenwich Station on the Jubilee Line extension, among others, Alsop was one of four architects chosen to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale. This volume examines his creative process.
